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Brazil is extending for a further three years its “More Doctors” program (Programa Mais Médicos), which has brought thousands of foreign doctors—mostly Cubans—to a country in dire need of medical professionals, a government spokesperson said Friday.

The program, which aims to bring in more than 15,000 doctors a year to fill staff shortages in the country’s publically funded health system, imports medical professionals from abroad with the bulk coming from Cuba.

According to Brazil’s former health minister, Arthur Chioro, Cuban doctors now work in more than 70 percent of Brazil’s cities, and many of the countries remote communities.

Brazil has around 1.9 doctors per thousand people, according to World Bank figures in what’s one of the lowest doctor to population ratios in the world. Comparatively, Cuba has around 6.7 doctors per thousand people, the world’s highest number of doctors per capita.

The program was started by the Brazilian government to boost the number of doctors working in remote areas…

Cubans welcomed the announcement on April 22 of a reduction of up to 20% in the price of certain products, mainly foodstuffs.

The Ministry of Finance and Prices highlighted in an informative note published the same day in the national press, that the Central Report to the 7th Party Congress, held April 16-19, states that “salaries and pensions are still insufficient to meet the needs of the Cuban family.”

Gradually increasing the population’s purchasing power in the short term

The note adds that although the definitive solution to this complex situation will only be reached through an increase in the productivity and efficiency of the national economy, “the political will of the Party and government leadership to do everything possible to improve the situation of the population…

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Air pollution is a phenomenon with a broad impact on human health and one of the greatest environmental issues facing the world.

Leading organizations recognize that the inhalation of pollutants, especially fine particles, represents a risk to the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, as well as impacting on other conditions.

Air pollution also jeopardizes the vitality of ecosystems and endangers flora and fauna.One of the biggest effects of this phenomenon is climate change, causing increased average temperatures.

With vast experience in air pollution studies, Cuba has conducted various projects and local and regional studies which go beyond mathematical calculations, to address the wider effects on the health of the most vulnerable sectors of the population.

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Venezuela and Brazil are the scenes of a new form of coup d’état that would set the continent’s political calendar back to its worst times. Meanwhile, in Argentina, the brutal model for the demolition of democracy is set forward by the continental oligarchic right and the hegemonic forces of US imperialism who wish to impose their model in the region.

As we can see in the previews that test the memory of the peoples in the continent, it is difficult to accept that the new types of coups are actually softer and more covert than those which Latin America suffered for so long.

No less cruel

What has been shown so far in Argentina is no less cruel, in terms of contempt for the masses, than the coups carried out by the bloodthirsty dictatorships that sprouted in time of Operation Condor.

The Collapse of the Western Fiat Monetary System may have Begun. China, Russia and the Reemergence of Gold-Backed Currencies

On 19 April 2016, China was rolling out its new gold-backed yuan. Russia’s ruble has been fully supported by gold for the last couple of years. Nobody in the western media talks about it. Why would they? – A western reader may start wondering why he is constantly stressed by a US dollar based fiat monetary systems that is manipulated at will by a small elite of financial oligarchs for their benefit and to the detriment of the common people.

In a recent Russia Insider article, Sergey Glaziev, one of Russia’s top economists and advisor to President Putin said about Russia’s currency, “The ruble Is the most gold-backed currency in the world”. He went on explaining that the amount of rubles circulating…

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Many families remain in the streets as they fear going back to their homes with the possibility of aftershocks | Photo: ‏@unicefaustralia

Any help is welcomed, as entire families are facing long nights outside of their homes or searching for their relatives.

As the number of victims and injured keeps rising on the coast of Ecuador after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Saturday night, the government has been organizing local and regional support. But with the devastating consequences of the earthquake, any help is welcomed.

The authorities have put in place a national and international relief effort. The National Assembly posted on Twitter a list of useful items to send to the devastated areas, such as first aid medicine, canned food, bottles of water, mattresses, tents, and mosquito nets.

Now those who wish to help from outside of Ecuador can donate through a national bank account set up…

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A brigade of the ”Henry Reeve” International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in dealing with disasters and serious epidemics traveled to Ecuador to provide assistance to victims of the earthquake that hit regions of the country on Saturday.

An official note disclosed here today indicates that the group of specialists sent last night is reinforced with a rescue team.

This contribution is added to the more than 700 specialists of health care who provide services permanently in Ecuador and talked to the authorities of that country to provide assistance to the affected population, the text says.

The note says that Cuba reaffirms its solidarity and support for the government and the brother people of Ecuador before the tragedy caused by the earthquake of 7.8 degrees on the Richter scale, killing 272 people dead and injuring more than 2,000.

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Sectors of the right wing representing the oligarchy, in alliance with the reactionary press in Brazil, openly supported by the corporate media and imperialism, have consummated in the country’s House of Deputies the first step in what constitutes a parliamentary coup d’etat against the legitimate government of the Workers’ Party (PT) and President Dilma Rousseff, which has been in the works for several months.

This is an attack, based on unproven accusations with no legal foundation, on Brazilian democracy and the legitimacy of a government which was elected at the polls by a majority of the people, as has been denounced by the head of state and by former President and PT leader, Luiz Inacio “Lula” Da Silva, and by numerous leaders of left wing political parties and Brazilian social movements.

Since 2003, the year in which the first Workers Party government led by Lula took office, important social programs…